Bottle-closure.



G. G. DEEDS, BOTTLE CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1913.

Patented June 30, 19M.

CLYDE C. DEEDS, 0F TERRE MUTE, INDIANA.

BOTTLE-CLOSURE.

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To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLYDE G. DEEDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improve.- mcnts in bottle closures, and is designed to provide a cheap but eiiicient bottle closure for use withmilk bottles, which will be durable and perform the functions required of a sanitary milk bottle closure.

The invention consists in. a bottle closure stamped from a single piece of paper or card board, and formed with novel means for locking and strengthening the disk or cap of the closure.

In the accompanying drawings l have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my inyention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles. i

Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the mouth of a milk bottle with my improved cap or closure applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the bottle closure looking down upon the top. Fig. 4; is a similar view looking at the bottom of the closure.

The bottle closure is used with the universal type of milk bottle as depicted in Fig. 2 wherein-the neck 1 is formed with the shoulder 2 and the flaring mouth 3, and the bottle closure is adapted to beseated on the shoulder of the mouth. The bottle closure comprises a circular disk 1 formed with an annulus or ring 5 on its under side at the edge thereof, and this ring forms a projecting annular shoulder G of double the thickness of the disk 4.. This ring forms a Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 15, 1913. Serial No. 779,203.

constructed for the purpose.

strengthening means for the disk as well as providing a seal to seat on the shoulder 2,.

and lends rigidity and stability to the closure by stiffening the disk. I

A flaring collar 7 rises from the shoulder or ring, and as will be noted it is of greater. diameter at its mouth than. at its juncture with the ring 5. This collar may be flexible or inflexible and isdesigned to protect the mouth of the bottle from extraneous sub stances and keep it clean. The disk and shoulder or ring are preferably substantially inflexible and form an efiicient closure the bottle, while the collar 7 which may be either flexible or inflexible providesa means for Patented June so, i914...

by which the closure or disk may be lifted from the bottle. It will be noted that the closure is an integer and it is stamped-t0 shape under proper dies, the annulus being formed or pressed to shape by suitable means The closure may be coated with paraffin or oil if desired to make it waterproof or moisture proof,

and when the edges of the ring, or its shoulder is forced down upon the shoulder of the bottle neck the contents ofthe bottle are efiectively sealed against the admission of undesirable foreign substances or matter.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is An integral bottle closure-comprising a fiat disk and an upwardly and outwardly flaring collar, and an annular shoulder projecting below the plane of the disk and laterally beyond the lower portion of the flaring collar.

In testimony whereof I afllx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLYDE C. DEEDS.

-Witnesses: v

PAUL N. BOGART, DON M. NIXON. 

